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MUSSOLINI THE

INVULNERABLE.

ANOTHER ATTEMPT ON LIFE FAILS.

FRENZIED CROWD KILLS ASSAILANT.

GREAT CELEBRATIONS THROUGHOUT ITALY.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

COAL DISPUTE.

PREJS, TUESDAY, "NOVEMBER 2xD

THE

HONGKONG I DAILY

ROAD FUND FIGURES.

GROWING REVENUE FROM MOTOR TRAFFIC.

[EXITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)

A LETTER FROM THE PRIME

·MINISTER.

[RITISH WIRELESS. SAAVICK]

Roosy, October 31st.

Rugar, November 1st. The annual report on the administra- In a letter on the coal dispute to Major Carver, the Conservative candidate attion of the Road Fund of which motor the by-election if the Howdenshire divificence duties for the rain source of son of Yorkshire, the Prime Minister revenue, shows that receipts amounted emphasises that the coal industry, like to slightly over £18,250,000, while the "totalled nearly grants £17,500,000 and the new payment made exceeded £16,750,000.

other industries, must stand on its own feet. A the suggestions made by the Government had been rejected by either one side or the other and hope of further Government intervention merely tends to

indicated

In the Ave years from 1920 to 1993, sums exceeding £33,000,000 were allocated

ENGLISH MUNICIPAL

ELECTIONS.

RECORD NUMBER OF LABOUR CANDIDATES.

[THROUGH 'RIUTER'S AGENCY. ].

LONDON, November 1st. In the Municipal elections, being held to-day in England and Wales, one third of the Provincial Borough Councila in London are not concerned because the Councils are elected every three years.

Elsewhere one-fourth of the Councillors retire yearly,

The candidates for some seventy of the chief Municipalities are:--Labour 785,

dents $19. Only two arowed Communists

AMERICAN CRIME SENSATION.

MURDERER AND BANK ROBBER SHOT DEAD.

THE MYSTERY OF CHIANG KAI SHEK.

MOVEMENTS BY NORTH IN SOUTHERN HUNAN.

FANG SEN ADVANCING ON

HANKOW.

** (REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.):

DETROIT, November 1st. James Cuncliffe, wanted by the New

Kuomintang and Kuominchun leaders Jersey authorities in connection with the murder of the driver of a mailvan stated yesterday (says the NC. Daily which he robbed of $150,000 at Elizabeth, News of October 27th) that they had no was shot dead in a fashionable flat here. confirmation of the reported death of General Chiang Kai Shek. No direct

Policemen summoned to the fat were fired on by a man called Olsen, who kill-telegram from Hankow, Wuchang or one of them, and he himself was shot Changsha has been received on the

subject. dead by another officer.

The bodies of Cunliffe and a woman

"

Martial law in the Chinese city is still being strictly enforced but the curfew is

BOLOGNA, November 1st. The people here are now more con- vinced than ever that Signor Mussolini is invulnerable, and is protected by prolong the dispute. Hends: "We should from the Road Fund to enable important | Conservative 858, Liberals 290, Indepen- were found in bed. It is believed that tolled at 11 p.m. instead of 9 p.m. a Providence. The present attempt the fourth within a year, is the most draina

tic of all.

Signor Mussolini, after inaugurating a Scientific Congress, received a frenzied ovation by a crowd in Neptune Square

when the shot was fred.

Signor Musaolini was unmoved, smiled to the crowd and nodded as if to say 1:

is useless. He cannot hurt me." He told those around him, "It is nothing," then frowning he ordered the Prefect, "Above all, take all measures to pre-

vent reprisala."' The same instructions were sent to all' provinces.

Meanwhile a crowd surrounded Signor Mussolini's motor-car, almost raising it from the ground, and with angry shouts, turned on the youthful assailant, stabbing him, striking him with clubs and canes, killing him instantly.

*Viva-Mussolini.”-

only be paving the way for further mis- understanding were we to pretend that we had it in our power either to compel a settlement or in the present temper of

the industry to secure an agreement. We have done all we could and no wise Government could have done, more. We have always been ready and we are still reaily to listen to reasonable suggestions from either the mine-owners Or the

miners,"

During the past week the men working in pits has increased by over 25,000 and now numbers about 270,000.

FAILURE OF MINERS CAMPAIGN.

DOMESTIC COAL RATION DOUBLED.

|| 1. Ruasy, November 1st.

rod and bridge works to be expedited. The total value of these works will exceed £34,000,000.

The approximate number of vehicles for which licenses were granted during 1925 was 1,547,000 compared with 1,335,600 in the previous year.

ANOTHER WORLD'S RECORD. BRITISH AIRMAN'S LONG FLIGHT

UUSIDE DOWN.

Rugar, November 1st.

are standing.

as a sequel to Olsen killed both quarrel over the division of the spoils Labour is contesting every possible seat of a recent bank, robbery here, in which with a record number of candidates, it is suggested that Olsen took part. Ten Conservatives and Liberals have thousand dollars in currency were strewn bined against Socialists in many places. on the floor. The importance of the elections will be understood when it is remembered that

Municipal bedies govern 20,000,000 people, and expend £100,000,000 yearly.

U.S. "ELECTIONS.

The British Air Force pilot, Lieat. WEIGHING UP THE PROSPECTS. Calvey," aying a single seater fighting aeroplane, bas broken the World's record for sustained upside down flight by re- maining in that position for 4 minutes, 45 seconds.

A NEW PHASE OF UNIVERSITY LIFE.

LONDON, October 31st. American correspondents weighing up the prospects in connection with Tues day's polling in the United States say that although the election does not turn on any large inatters of policy. it is certain test President Coolidge's

to

This week promises a further opportu THE PRINCE OF WALES CROWD standing. They point out that the tax

The report of the attempt spread like nity to obtain a settlement of the coal wild fire, so that the remainder of Signor strike by agreement. Delegates of the Mussolini's mile long drive to the station Conferences on Thursday will decide was transformed into a tripmphal march. whether this chance presented to them Cries of Viva Mussolini," Viva Duce, by the intervention of the Trades Union woe to whoever touches you," accom- Conferences mediators is to be taken. panied the shaking of clenched fists by The situation with which the miners are the infuriated crowd. Women threw Inced implies failure of the effort embark- flowers and blew kisses, and Signored upon by the last Delegate Conference Mussolini cried "God bless you" to intensify the dispute by means of a Children clapped their hands.

speech making campaign and an applica. tion to other unions for an embargo on foreign coal and a Enancial levy on mêm- bers.

escape.

and his ebildren embraced him.

Signor Mussolini's family, awaiting him at the station, were unaware of what bad happened. Sigfor Massolini told them almost jokingly of his narrow The number of men returning to the His wife was greatly moved, pits continues to increase. The refusal of other trade unions to support an em The crowd, despite the efforts of the barge or a levy to regarded as certain, Police-and-Carabineers "te-hold it back.

and the coal available enables the comes invaded the station and frantically cheer-tic ration to be this week officially ed Signor Mussolini until the train left.

doubled," while industries have fuel to Great demonstrations in celebration meet their needs. It remains for the of Signor Mussolini's escape took place miners themselves to decide whether the throughout Italy last night.

advice of their fellow trade unionists to

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14 Kalie Thrusts in Body.

BOLOGNA, November 1st.

What was left of Signor Mussolini's removed to the police station It revealed traces of strangulation and fourteen deep knife

assailant's body was

thrusta. It is estimated that the man died within a minute of fring the shot. A Tromma bullet was found in Musso- "lini's car.

negotiate without reservations for a settlement in the light of the facts of the situation will be accepted as an alterna tive to the continuance of the contest in the circumstances, which, from their point of view offer little bepe of improve.

macnt.

THE NEW BETTING TAX.

"NOW IN OPERATION.

ED DAY" IN PARIS.

RUGBY, October 31st.

reduction carried put by Mr. Mellon, which is by far the most noteworthy feature of the Coolidge Government, is likely to stand the Republicans in good stead in the Eastern and part of the Middle West, but the Rural vote is pro-

blematic.

The Prince of Wales spent a crowded day in Paris yesterday. After luncheon with the President of the Republic at the Elysee, he inaugurated the Canadian

Over and against the striking fact of Hostel, the ârst of its kind to be estab- lished in the Cite Universitaire. In the industrial prosperity, there has been a evening he spoke at a banquet given by the great amount of agrarian discontent. Unien Inter-Alliee Association of France, Governor Al Smith, of New York, is the Grande Bretagne and the Comite de laöutstanding personality in the election Maison Des Etudiants Canadiens at the and there seema, not the smallest doubt Cercle Inter-Alliee. He described him that be will. triumphantly be returned. self as a friend talking to friends and Many Democrats are looking to him as expressed admiration for the generous the candidate for the Presidency in 1945. impulse of France who, in setting an example which other nations would shortly follow, had added to_the_bril liant traditions of the Sorbonne this new phase of university life.

It is proposed to build a British hostel in connection with the Cite Universitaire to house some 200 or 300 students and a

meeting is being held to-morrow at the Mansion House, London, presided over by the Lord Mayor, to further the scheme. Both Lord Crewe, the British Ambas. sador in Paris, and M. Fleurian, the French Ambassador in London, will be present at the meeting.

NEW ZEALAND'S PREMIER. PAYS A VISIT TO LORD JELLICOE.

Others whose names are mentioned as

DEATH OF HOUDINI.

A FAMOUS MAGICIAN:

DETRIOT, October 31st, The death is announced of the magician Houdini, following two operations for apendicitis and peritonitis.

during the begining of the week.

The theatres of war between Marshal

Sun and the Cantonese Army have been shifted to Hunan Province, and the dearth of news from around Nanchang is compensated for by the struggles between the opposing armies in Hunan.

According to information received in Shanghai, the capital of Hunan Pro- vince, Changsha, ja now free from soldiers from the South; the Kuomintang, army which had been stationed there were des patched southward for defence against Marshal San's troops in southern Hu- nan. Cantonese garrisons at the Han- yang arscan! bave also been removed.

General Yang Sen is reported to have advanced as far as Kungan and Shihabao where the Cantonese defending army un- dor Generals Ho Lung and Pan Hong”? Chang was defeated. General Yang is advancing toward the general direction of Wuchang and Hankow.

The late Harry Houdini was a native of Wisconsin, being the son of the Rev. Dr. M. S. Weisa. Later his name was legally changed to Houdini. He began his stagelife as a trapeze performer as far back as 1882, and made several tours of the world, performing before rulers and notables. He invented a diving suit, and came into great public prominence in America as the man who, hand cuffed and shackled, jumped off the

General Chen Tsina Yuan, one of "water. He had also attacked and ex Marshal Sun's generals also reported vic

Brooklyn Bridge, freeing himself under posed" spiritualism, He spent some tories of the Fifth Army which has few occupied several strategic points along considerable time in Australia a years ago, associating himself with Taitsemiao and Kuangshnohe. Marshal aviation. He was awarded a prize by Sun has ordered General Chen to effect the Australian Aeronautic League in 1910 a junction with the other Allied army in as being the most successful flier in southern Henan. Australia. He has written a number of works on magic? He was 52 years of age.]

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.} B.A.T. FACTORY GUTTED.

£150,000 DAMAGE.

LONDON, October 31st. The British American Tobacco Co.'s export tobacco factory at Southampton has been burnt out.

The damage is estimated at £150,000.

Democratic possibles for the highest post CHEAPER PETROL AT HOME.

are Senator Pomerene (Ohio) Governor Ritchie, of Maryland, and Governor Donahey, of Ohio.

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

COOLIDGE AND PROSPERITY."

PROHIBITION THE CHIEF ISSUE.

Operation of Martial Law.

The Shanghai-Woosung Constabulary and the military forces are still taking every precaution for the prevention of similar disturbances to the attack on the police station at West Gate, Shanghai (Native City). Patrols have been doubled and emergency squads are standing by. Others in motor cars drive through the narrow roads. The curfew hour has been raised to nine p.m., which allows many working in the Settlement to arrive home.

".

Rumour had it that an attack would be made at Woosung and additional men were despatched to the forts. Fifty men were posted at the bridge and instrue-" tions were issued to shoot to kill. The more did not eventuate, however.

In Pooting, suspicioni were aroused by parties of three and five persons-who- Losnor, October 31store-seen-to-enter-a-certain-house, The price of petrol through pumps raid was organized and several tens of senior constables " entered the house, to-morrow will be reduced by three which they found vacant. They found, halfpence per gallon and pétrol supplied however, a large bundle of daga, a white in cans will be reduced similarly in sun on a blue sky. A party also searched" London and the Home Counties, and by Warks, but found nothing.

the premises of the Chung Kuo Iron a penny per gallon elsewhere.

ANCIENT CELTIC REMAINS. PREHISTORIC BONES FOUND AT

SUNBURY.

During excavations undertaken this. summer by the Thames Conservancy while constructing the new lock on the Surrey side of the Thames at Sunbury, quantity of different kinds of bones were found close together, lying at depth of about 20ft. below the present surface of the ground, embedded in the old river shingle and just above the level.

Passwords to be used on entering the city are changed twice nightly while the authorities of Woosung have instructed factory owners not to sound their whistles, as there might be a misunder standing."

According to Dah Chung news agency soldiers on guard at the Arsenal noticed two suspicious characters, who attempted to enter the premises with the workers after the Innch hour. They were seized, bound and searched, a bomb being found upon each. They were sent to the Mili- tary Court. A man dressed in woman's clothes was also arrested.

WASHINGTON, November 1st. The election campaign lacks a clearcut issue. Most leaders are silent on the questions of Prohibition and the World Court, though Individual candidates throughout the country have, avidly seized on them. Frohibition is the chief issue, particularly in Senatorial contests in Rugsy, November 1st.

A LIFEBOAT LANDING.

New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, The betting duty imposed by this year's

Missouri and other states, while proof the blue clay. Dr. W. E. St. Law- TEACHING WOMEN TO EARN RUGBY, October 31st." Finance Act comes into operation to-day. After attending yesterday's Naval re.bibition referendums have been ordered renco Finny, who examined the bones, A youth aged, eighteen years, shot with The Government's proposal to tax bets view of Portland, the Prime Minister in New York, Wisconsin, Colorado, and that among them were some human..

was announced in the Chancellor of the of New Zealand and Mrs. Coates of Montana, Illinois, Nevada and California.

ceeded on a destroyer to the Isle

"Coolidge and Prosperity" was the Exchequer's budget statement in April, Wight to spend the week-end with Ad- and in the interval all arrangements formiral of the Fleet, Lord Jellicoe. On rallying cry of Republican political or- arrival at Yarmouth, the north-easterly

The Premier, addressing militiamen in the station yard, did not refer to the incident.

First Report,"

BOLOGNA, October 31st..

n.revolver at Signor Mussolini as he was leaving the hall where he had inaugur ated a Scientific Congress.

The crowd seized and lynched the

assallart, but Signor Mussolini was un- hurt.

Uniform, Pisrced.

LATER.

issuing certificates and granting licences to book-makers have been completed. Race meetings to-day at Birmingham and Wye will mark the inauguration of the new tax. Three police officers with ex- Signor Mussolini had a most narrowperience of race-course meetings have escape, as the bullet actually severed the been appointed to assist the customs ribbon of one of the decorations he was authorities in the administration of the wearing, piercing the extreme edge of

his uniform, at breast height. It pene. trated the sleeve of the Mayor of Bologna, who was sitting next to Musso- zini.

The Premier stopped the car a few moments and reviewed detachments of militia in the Station Yard 'before pro- eceding to Bome.

JAPANESE RECORD BREAKER.

YOUNG GIRL'S GREAT FEAT.

new law.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS. THE UNDER-SECRETARY

GENERALSHIP. ̈·

Evo37, October 31st.

A Genová telegram states that Sir Eric Drummond, Secretary-General of the

wind and a heavy ses made it impossible

launch an ordinary boat land them. A lifeboat with Lord Jellicos aboard put off from the shore and, after some dif- faculty, brought his guests to land.

THE LOSS OF H.M.S. "VALERIAN."

A COURT MARTIAL TO BE

found that they were of great antiquity, bones with the characteristics of having belonged to prehistoric man; he there foro obtained permission from the Thames Conservancy to submit the bones to Sir Arthur Keith at the Royal College of Surgeons, and to place them in the Kingston. Museum.

ganisations with attacks on alleged Democratic extravagance in "War time and since the war. All the Coolidge Sir Arthur Keith is of opinion that the Cabinet have participated in the fight human bones are those of Lake or Pile Dwellers, of the Celtic pre-Roman race, to retain Republican working majorities of the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age. in the Senate, while the Democratic big and date approximately 2,000 B.C. The leg bones show distinct flattening usual guns have declared that Coolidge Proin primitive man, and the shin bone HELD,sperity" and Republican economy myths

demand a reduction in taxes and tariffs EY, October 31st.

They denounce the Coolidge Adminis The Admiralty anounce that infor- mation has been received from the tration on the ground that it fostered Comamander-in-Chief of the North Ame monopolies and countenanced debauchery rice and West Indies Station that a Court Martial into the loss of the Navy of the electorate. The last named alle sloop Falerian will assemble to-morrow. gation is connected with the revelations Until the verdict has been pronounced, no information as to the precise circum before the Senate Campaign Fuads Com stances in which the vessel was lost can mitter of huge expenditures on Republi be considered reliable. The suggestion

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MONEY.

1.

A FRENCH EXPERIMENT.

:

In order that the wives of their em ployees who live in the thirty-five garden cities" that have been built since the war by the Northern Railway in France may not have to go out to work, and may still have remunerative employment at home, this railway com pany has recently introduced an interest- ing experiment.

In many directions an attempt is being made to ensure that children of the rail- waymen are brought up to be healthier and stronger than those of past genera shows also a squatters facet of the tions, but experience is showing that Neolithic or Bronze Age, indicating that although infant welfare centres, the free the man and his ancestors for many provision of doctors, milk supply, dia- generations spent much of their time pensaries, crèches, and nursery schools in the semierect or squatter's position can all play an important part, yet the Though no flint or bronze implementa mother is the decisive factor. If she were found, the antlers found with the leaves the home to go out to work in a bones all show signs of having been used factory or a shop her children suffer. ns pickaxes, or tools of that nature; one Many Frenchwomen, with generations of of them belongs to an exceptionally large industry in their veins, are anxious to and early species of red deer, common in work and at the same time to supplement the Neolithic Age, but now very rare, the family income. Accordingly, under The human beres consisted of a typical the direction of Mile. Marguerite Grange, "River Bed" female skull, having a special training is being given to the

ridges being well but not excessively sitics in Northern France in drem- marked; a female fattened thigh bose of making, embroidery, and lace-making so the Neolithic or Bronze Age' from a that they may earn money and yet not woman about bft. lin. high; a male, left, have to leave home." At Lens where the shin bone, flattened, and showing the railway company has a settlement con- equatter's animal bones consist of 40 taining 2,800 inhabitants, a course has ox bones, 11 horse banes, three pig bones, been established to teach women and their and a pig's skull, three dog bones," six | elder girls how to make lingerie. In bones of red deer, and six antlers Al-other cities there are dressmaking classes. though a large aack of animal bones were Valenciennes ince is being made at the PARIS, October 31st found, there were no sheep or goat bones garden city not far away from the rail- M. Duval, who is accused of being the among them. All the bones have been way sheds of Valenciennes, while at ringleader in connection with the theft of classified and labelled by. Sir Arthur Tergnier there is a school of enroider Chinese securities, has been arrested at | Keith, and are now on view in the the products of which are fetching high Nancy.

museum at Kingston-on-Thames,

prices in the Parisian'shopa.*

League of Nations, will nominate Herr that there is any mystery connected with can primaries this year in Pennsylvania eephalic index of 77.2, the supra-orbital women who live in the railway "garden

THE STOLEN CHINESE SECURITIES.

the loss of the vessel in a hurricane is" and Illinois. Dufour Feroace, as Under-Secretary one that need not be seriously entertain- General of the Lengue. Herr Dufoured. Ferance has been counsellor of the German Embassy in London for several yeare. The appointment will come be fore the League Council for confirmation next December. The Observer describca

TOYO, November 1st. Miss Fumi Terao, aged sixteen, to-day broke the women's world record for the 100 metres in 13.7 seconds, during an it as a very happy selection and says athletic meeting in the newly opened that no one could be better qualified for Meiji Shrine Stadium.

work at Geneva

LOND'S MOTOR SHOW.

A RECORD ATTENDANCE.”

RUGBY, October 31st. The International Motor Show at. Olym pia, London, terminated yesterday. The total attendance at this year's show was over 200,000 compared with 184,000 Jast year.

ALLEGED RINGLEADER

ARRESTED.